Bending, Punching
& Stamping
- Punching is a manufacturing process used primarily for piercing flat materials. The term comprises several forming and cutting processes.
- Similar to cutting-out Christmas cookies from a dough, stamped parts are punched out of flat materials. Punching is used for cutting, joining and forming.
- Special punching and stamping tools, also known as cutting and forming tools, are used for this purpose
- In addition to cutting, these tools can be used to shape materials using a cold forming process by stamping, drawing-out, bending and upsetting.